COASTAL - BETH FLETCHER

Beth Fletcher is on of the artists amongst Kurt Jackson, Alfred wallis and other that I have bin asked to research. I decided to pick Beth Fletcher to talk about on my blog because I didnt really like her work as much as some other people did. In my opinion Beth Fletchers work is very dark and depressing and it seems that her perception of the coast/seaside/sea is a quite dull. The use of her strong and dark colours make the picture seem quite sad and in a way quite scary like there is a storm happening. Most of her paintings and the one shown above in done in paint.
From extra research i went on to website to try and found some background infromation and wondered if her pictures were dull and dark for a certain reason or if that was just the style she liked "These layered, transient, seen and felt moments, when transformed through the painting process, are intended to engender a prolonged engagement with the painting as a mediated experience of landscape. In the studio, rather than directly in front of the landscape, I can paint under the influence of the memory’s interpretation of the living landscape – the ‘soul-yearning’ which is a response to more than what is manifest only to the eye."